Developing Mental Health Provision in West Sussex: Harold A. Kidd, first Medical Superintendent of Graylingwell Hospital, 1896-1926
Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: I IntroductionDr Harold Kidd, first Medical Superintendent (MS) of the West Sussex County Asylum (later Graylingwell Hospital) was a physician trained under the ideals of benevolent humanitarianism towards the insane.This was an ethical ideology rooted and grounded in the post-Enlightenment, mid-European psychiatric tradition known as 'moral treatment' and it formed the basis of Victorian institutional care. 1 Kidd's adherence to these ideals was shown in 1898, when in one of his early writings as MS he insisted that his patients were inhabitants of a hospital rather than an institution of 'corrective' confinement, as in the past.A diligent, dedicated man and the head of the newly built pauper asylum in Chichester, Kidd also wished that all 'modern buildings erected for the care and treatment of the mentally afflicted combine I wish to offer thanks to Niall McCrae and Sue Morgan for their comments on earlier drafts of this article and to the peer review panel at Southern History for their helpful criticism.I also with to thank the staff and archivists of the West Sussex County Record Office for their help in the research for this article.I acknowledge, with thanks, the support of the Heritage Lottery Funded Graylingwell Heritage Project for funding this research from 2014 to 2015.
Author: Maureen Wright
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2590784151